The great dividing line between success and failure can be expressed in five words: "I did not have time." -- WestHost weekly newsletter 14 Feb 2003

No one is all evil. Everybody has a good side. If you keep waiting, it will comme up. -- Randy Pausch

You can have premature generalization as well as premature optimization. -- Bjarne Stroustrup

The programmer must seek both perfection of part and adequacy of collection. -- Alan J. Perlis

Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it. -- Alan J. Perlis (Epigrams in programming)

Java and C++ make you think that the new ideas are like the old ones. Java is the most distressing thing to hit computing since MS-DOS. -- Alan Kay

If you don’t design your own life plan, chances are you’ll fall into someone else’s plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much. ~ Jim Rohn

A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new. – Albert Einstein

If you can dream it, you can achieve it. –Zig Ziglar

Do what you can, where you are, with what you have. –Teddy Roosevelt